Our Company

Meet the Team

Born from an idea in the wintery North, we’ve been embraced by Java nation anywhere we go. Every day, our customers add chapters to the ZeroTurnaround story. And every day, dozens of crazy-smart people in our team work hard to ensure that the story is a blast. Here are their humble ambassadors.

EXECUTIVE TEAM

  • Jevgeni Kabanov

    Jevgeni Kabanov

    Founder & CEO

    Jevgeni first wrote the JRebel prototype in 2007 when he served as R&D director at Webmedia. His insight? Tackling Java’s core problem: the redeployment bottleneck. This led to a start-up and two products that smart Java teams wouldn’t be caught without.

    Jevgeni splits his time between ZeroTurnaround’s offices around the globe, keeping the company’s core instincts razor-sharp. You can spot him online and at international conferences where he talks about classloaders and ZeroTurnaround in Java Development in many international conferences.

    He is also the co-founder of 2 open-source projects: Aranea and Squill.

  • Toomas Römer

    Toomas Römer

    Founder, Director of Engineering

    Toomas was a R&D specialist in Webmedia and has been the core developer for ZeroTurnaround’s product since 2007.

    He is a big fan of JUG communities and he contributes to the open-source Aranea Web Framework.

    In his spare time he crashes Lexus’ while test driving them, plays chess and Go or maybe some Starcraft.

  • Alex Laats

    Alex Laats

    President and COO

    Alex has 20+ years of experience as a tech entrepreneur, business operator, and team builder.

    Before joining ZeroTurnaround, he created Boomerang, RAMP, and AVOKE, and acquired Digital Force Technologies) while serving as president of BBN Technologies’ Delta Division. BBN is legendary in the geek world for many things, including the development of the early internet nodes and the invention of email.

    Prior to BBN, Alex co-founded two businesses, including NBX, one of the first successful enterprise VoIP businesses.

    Alex walks a fine line of geek and businessman while still maintaining his title as four square (the schoolyard game) legend. In the short-guy, over-40 category, that is.

  • Riina Einberg

    Riina Einberg

    General Manager, Estonian Operations

    Riina has literally had the privilege of living in IT and Internet history by facilitating Internet uptake in Estonia, participating in developing Estonian e-government, and by helping Skype grow from a small to mid size company.

    Her secret formula for exceptional organization is a good company structure, hiring dedicated persons, helping individuals understand themselves, what they want, all while using brutal honesty.

  • Jeremy Lopez

    Jeremy Lopez

    Marketing Director

    Jeremy comes from the online advertising and data intelligence industries where he harvested his love for data driven marketing.

    He embraces the marketing philosophy “a good product + good marketing = happy customers, but a great product + great marketing = a true relationship” which was met with open arms at ZeroTurnaround.

    Jeremy still aspires to be a geek but doesn’t think that code writing is in his future.

  • Ethan Schechter

    Ethan Schechter

    Sales Director

    Ethan uses an enthusiastic sales methodology by building relationships and leading by example. His eclectic sales background includes enterprise data storage, social media, financial services, and information technology.

    Ethan looks to provide value to metrics-based sales by presenting them with great technology and the resources and planning to implement them effectively.

    He has been able to accomplish extraordinary results in the course of his sales career, giving it all each step of the way. He enables the sales dream to become the foundation to success.

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